Late Light

Some people sit in darkness most of their lives, but in the end, they see the light.

Before his death in 2011, Christopher Hitchens, the English-American author, columnist and literary critic, was renowned for his disbelief in God.

Called an atheist by some, Hitchens himself preferred the label "antitheist" — meaning someone who not only is certain that God does not exist, but who actively opposes the very idea that God exists and those who support the idea. In his book, Letters to a Young Contrarian, he wrote "I'm not even an atheist so much as I am an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions of the same untruth, but I hold that the influence of churches and the effect of religious belief is positively harmful." And his even more well-known book, one that reached No. 1 on The New York Times bestseller list in its third week, was titled God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything.

Thus, it caused quite a stir in the religious world when Christian author Larry Taunton, who spent some time with Hitchens in the latter's final months,...